The Amazon is at the heart of contemporary discussions about the ecological crisis and climate change, regularly featuring on the front pages of newspapers and on TV
shows. Despite this celebrity, this part of the world remains paradoxically unknown. Everyone has heard about Amazonia, but all we know can be summarized in a
simplistic idea of a luxuriant virgin forest inhabited by generic «Indians». For a large part of the public, Amazonians are just indistinguishable people surviving in a hostile environment to which they have adapted their timeless, traditional way of life. With no history and isolated from the world, the «Indians» live in harmony with nature – and reduced, for the most part, to the role of victims of predatory progress leading to the loss of their culture.

The exhibition presents something other than the virgin forest Western people fantasy about. The public will be guided through the eyes of the Indigenous Peoples living
in the region. They are varied and plural, both ancient and contemporary. They live deep in the forest but also in large cities, constantly transforming themselves while
maintaining their cultural identities. Over the millennia, Indigenous Peoples have shaped the forest, a living place they share with spirits, animals, westerners and so many other creatures.

Anchored in tradition and threatened by modernity, the Amazon and its Peoples have turned themselves to other possible futures.